It started last night as I just got out of a car of a 2 hour drive and noticed that my neck and shoulders were stiffening up a bit, to the point that turning my head was a bit painful to do.
I took a long hot shower and that made the pain pretty much go away completely. I went to sleep about an hour later at around 11pm, and at 1am I woke up from one of the worst shoulder pains in my life.
It was a sort of inflammation feeling, but it also felt numb, the sort of feeling you get when your foot's asleep but it was in my shoulders. I try to move around, stretch out my shoulders a bit but the pain was so great that at one point I found it hard to breathe and I almost went to the hospital.
Eventually I went back into the shower, turn it to about as hot as it can get and stood there for about 5 minutes which helped greatly. I could still feel the pain but it went away enough that I could fall asleep again..but then at about 6am I woke up again with the same pain, though not as great as it was originally..took an ice pack and iced each shoulder for a few minutes, which made the pain go away and sleep for another hour, until I got up and went to work.
The pain is bearable now, but I can definitely still feel it..and I'm trying to ice it every now and then here at work.
Any tips? I'm trying to think of anything I did that could cause it, but nothing really stands out. Only new thing I've introduced to my workout are 20-set squats (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/irontamer5.htm) which leaves the weight on my shoulders a bit longer than usual, but I'm not sure if that would be the cause of anything.
I took a long hot shower and that made the pain pretty much go away completely. I went to sleep about an hour later at around 11pm, and at 1am I woke up from one of the worst shoulder pains in my life.
It was a sort of inflammation feeling, but it also felt numb, the sort of feeling you get when your foot's asleep but it was in my shoulders. I try to move around, stretch out my shoulders a bit but the pain was so great that at one point I found it hard to breathe and I almost went to the hospital.
Eventually I went back into the shower, turn it to about as hot as it can get and stood there for about 5 minutes which helped greatly. I could still feel the pain but it went away enough that I could fall asleep again..but then at about 6am I woke up again with the same pain, though not as great as it was originally..took an ice pack and iced each shoulder for a few minutes, which made the pain go away and sleep for another hour, until I got up and went to work.
The pain is bearable now, but I can definitely still feel it..and I'm trying to ice it every now and then here at work.
Any tips? I'm trying to think of anything I did that could cause it, but nothing really stands out. Only new thing I've introduced to my workout are 20-set squats (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/irontamer5.htm) which leaves the weight on my shoulders a bit longer than usual, but I'm not sure if that would be the cause of anything.
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